Thai SmartLynx Selects TrustFlight’s Centrik 5 for Safety, Quality, and Risk Management
BANGKOK, TH, October 16, 2024 — TrustFlight Ltd. (TrustFlight), a technology innovator focused on digitization of the aviation industry, today announced that Thai SmartLynx, formerly BBN Airlines Thailand, has selected TrustFlight’s Safety, Quality, and Risk Management platform, Centrik 5, to enhance safety, reduce risk, and improve operational efficiencies as it launches in early 2025.
Part of the broader Avia Solutions Group (ASG), Thai SmartLynx is set to become Thailand’s first ACMI provider when the carrier begins operations with Airbus A320s. The rebranded operator will support Thailand’s rapidly growing, tourism-driven market, which has seen a notable increase in activity after the COVID-19 downturn.
“We are proud to select TrustFlight for our Safety, Quality, and Risk management system,” mentioned Mr. Apirak Homlaor, CEO, Thai SmartLynx. “Far more than enabling seamless safety and quality management, TrustFlight’s prowess as a real-time operational management system ensures our teams remain connected, in real-time, as we respond to dynamic changes synonymous with the aviation industry.”
Thai SmartLynx will leverage Centrik 5’s full ecosystem of modules, including Safety, Compliance (Quality), Risk, Training, Workflows, and Regulations to oversee its operations. With the Regulations and Workflows modules, Thai SmartLynx will receive real-time notifications when changes to regulations occur, automatically alerting and assigning actions to ensure proactive maintenance of stringent safety and compliance regulations.
“We are keen to grow our presence in the rapidly growing APAC region and are excited to support Thai SmartLynx’ ACMI operations in Thailand,” said Karl Steeves, CEO, TrustFlight. “Centrik is known across the entire aviation and aerospace industry as a leading SMS, QMS, and RMS platform, and we are keen to showcase how it can provide value to operators by replacing multiple tools and systems in a bid to offer better operational management.”
For more information on the TrustFlight and Thai SmartLynx partnership, please visit TrustFlight at the Airline and Aerospace MRO & Flight Operations IT Conference at Booth 36 on October 16th and 17th at the Amari Watergate Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand. To learn more about TrustFlight’s ecosystem of digital solutions and services, please visit www.trustflight.com.
About TrustFlight
TrustFlight is a digital technology innovator focused on the aviation industry. The company’s best- in-class digital tools and services provide new levels of safety, efficiency and insight to everyone involved in the operation and maintenance of aircraft. TrustFlight boasts a suite of digital solutions. Electronic Tech Log automates flight data entry, scheduling, and maintenance recording. Centrik offers managers a 360-degree view of company operations. MEL Manager serves to digitise and manage minimum equipment lists. Originally founded by two commercial pilots, TrustFlight has grown to become a global firm supporting a wide variety of airlines, airports, maintenance providers and regulators.
About Thai SmartLynx
Thai SmartLynx, formerly known as BBN Airlines Thailand, specializes in ACMI (Aircraft, Crew, Maintenance, and Insurance) and charter services. The company, in a partnership with Avia Solutions Group, the world’s largest ACMI provider, and local partners, is in the final stages of getting approval for its Air Operator’s Certificate. Thai SmartLynx is expected to begin operations in early 2025, focusing on providing ACMI services, which allow other airlines to lease aircraft and crews for peak travel seasons or other needs. The airline will initially operate Airbus A320s and is positioned to become Thailand’s first ACMI provider. Its services will help meet the growing demand for additional air travel capacity in Thailand, particularly during peak tourist seasons. With Thailand’s tourism recovering to pre-pandemic levels and expected to grow further in the coming years, Thai SmartLynx is strategically positioned to address the seasonal aircraft shortages in the region.
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Rusada launches PDF Task Integrator for ENVISION
VEVEY, SWITZERLAND: Aviation software specialist Rusada, who earlier this week was acquired by Veryon, has announced the launch of a PDF Task Integrator for its Airworthiness, Maintenance, and Flight Operations solution ENVISION.
The PDF Task Integrator facilitates the digitalisation of customer task cards and work packages for MROs and third-party maintenance providers. Through newly developed functionality, the PDF Task Integrator can read uploaded PDFs, identifying key information such as the Task Number, Task Title, Work Area, Trades, Skills, Hours, and more, as well as highlighting signoffs. The tool can then use this discovered information to link the customer’s PDF task cards to work orders and tasks already created in ENVISION.
“This new functionality saves users significant amounts of time and effort,” said Peter Mortimer, Head of Sales & Business Development – Americas & APAC at Rusada. “Previously maintenance providers would be required to recreate customer task cards one by one in their own system before they could start planning work. In cases of large work packages, this could be thousands of different task cards. Our new tool eliminates this process completely.”
Once the task cards are digitalised, users can then add additional feedback requirements and designate skill applicability against the signoffs. When the work has been completed technicians and engineers can sign off electronically. The completed task can then be provided back to the customer as a PDF with all their preferred formatting still in place.
“ENVISION’s latest tool makes PDFs far more functional and easier to use,” comments Julian Stourton, CEO at Rusada. “It also heavily reduces the chance of input errors and non-compliance as feedback fields can be defined, and signoffs are validated against the user’s stamp in the system.”
Stourton adds, “Above all though, it fully removes the need for paper records and physical signatures in maintenance facilities, something that everyone in the industry is striving for.”
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About Rusada
Rusada, now part of Veryon, is a leading provider of aviation software with over 35 years of experience in the industry. Its ENVISION solution manages over 2,000 fixed and rotary wing aircraft for 150 operators, maintainers, and manufacturers in 50+ countries. With its headquarters in Switzerland and offices in the USA, Canada, UK, UAE, India, Singapore, and Australia, Rusada provides global support for a global industry.
Specialising in the management of airworthiness, maintenance, and flight operations, ENVISION is developed solely for aviation. Its modern, web-based platform features a suite of integrated modules, enhanced by a series of native mobile apps. ENVISION’s easy-to-use interface provides users with clear, actionable information, enabling processes to be carried out quickly and efficiently, all without the need for paper or spreadsheets.
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Central Mountain Air Rolls Out iQSMS for Streamlined Safety Management
Canadian Central Mountain Air (CMA) has recently launched ASQS’ quality and safety management system iQSMS in their organization, further cementing their commitment to safety and excellence in the aviation industry.
The privately owned and operated Western Canadian airline specializes in scheduled and charter flights and allows passengers to seamlessly transfer to Air Canada and WestJet flights through interline agreements.
CMA implemented the iQSMS Reporting Module including the offline application to reduce reporting barriers and ensure operational continuity.
“With iQSMS, CMA has a powerful tool in place that makes reporting easier than ever. This enables the entire team to work more efficiently and strengthens the safety culture within the company,” said Jonathan Frey, Director Sales Americas at ASQS.
“In addition to being user friendly and highly customizable, IQSMS has increased our transparency amongst our employees, provided us with better statistics and tracking/trending capabilities and increased our efficiency, which has allowed us to work smarter, not harder”, commented Jon Beliveau, SMS Manager at Central Mountain Air. “The IQSMS app is another great benefit, as it allows our employees to submit reports via devices, such as the iPads in our Electronic Flight Bags.”
This collaboration marks another milestone for ASQS as the company continues to expand its presence in the Canadian aviation market. ASQS’ integrated quality and safety management solution iQSMS is currently used by more than 300 aviation companies worldwide to manage their quality and safety management processes.
FinnHEMS selects Rusada’s ENVISION
HELSINKI, FINLAND: State-owned emergency medical operator FinnHEMS, has opted for Rusada’s ENVISION software to manage its airworthiness and maintenance activities.
FinnHEMS operates Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS) flights for hospital districts from its seven bases across Finland. They utilise a fleet of 9 helicopters, Airbus H135s and H145s, primarily for the deployment of emergency specialists to incidents, rather than the transportation of patients. As such, their callout rate is typically higher and more frequent than standard air ambulance services.
With this high volume of flights and need for constant aircraft availability, FinnHEMS was seeking a greater level of confidence in their operational data and determined that ENVISION met all the requirements for the job.
“We are looking forward to relying on ENVISION to give us more certainty around our operations, as well as increased visibility on the readiness of our fleet.” says Tony Ellonen, Continuing Airworthiness Manager at FinnHEMS. “A key desire was to enable our maintenance teams to effectively plan for upcoming events. With ENVISION, vital information will be readily available to our main base and outlying deployment stations so that our helicopters can be strategically maintained, to be available at a moment’s notice.”
With Rusada’s help, FinnHEMS will now begin the process of consolidating their current systems into ENVISION, using its airworthiness and maintenance modules to manage their activities going forward. The solution will be accessible via the cloud from any of their operating locations, and its live dashboards will ensure key information is available and consistent company wide. This will significantly reduce user’s workloads and avoid any potential human factors conflicts.
“Visibility and control are two words we are hearing a lot lately. Operators are finding it hard to manage complex operations with their data and processes spread across multiple different systems.”
“ENVISION has been designed specifically to eliminate this problem, but nevertheless it is always gratifying when dynamic, forward thinking companies such as FinnHEMS select us to help out. In the coming months we will go above and beyond to deliver the oversight and control they seek.”
Julian Stourton, CEO at Rusada
About Rusada
Rusada is a leading provider of aviation software with over 35 years of experience in the industry. Its ENVISION software manages over 2,000 fixed and rotary wing aircraft for 150 operators, maintainers, and manufacturers in 45+ countries. With its headquarters in Switzerland and offices in the USA, UK, UAE, India, Singapore, and Australia, Rusada provides global support for a global industry.
Specialising in the management of airworthiness, maintenance, and flight operations, ENVISION is developed solely for aviation. Its modern, web-based platform features a suite of integrated modules, enhanced by a series of native mobile apps. ENVISION’s easy-to-use interface provides users with clear, actionable information, enabling processes to be carried out quickly and efficiently, and all without the need for paper or spreadsheets.
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Berry Aviation signs up for Rusada’s ENVISION
SAN MARCOS, TEXAS: Leading private services operator Berry Aviation, has selected Rusada’s ENVISION software to manage its Airworthiness and Maintenance activities.
Berry Aviation, based in San Marcos Texas, provide specialty passenger, cargo, and medevac services to the U.S. Department of Defense, as well as cargo flights for civilian organisations, and third-party MRO services. They operate a mixed fleet of over 20 aircraft consisting of De Havilland DHC-6, De Havilland DHC-8-200, Embraer 120, Fairchild Swearingen Metro III, King Air 350, and Cessna 206.
As well as serving all branches of the U.S. military, Berry Aviation’s customers also include Fortune 500 companies, NCAA athletic teams, NASCAR teams, and other Part 135 and 121 carriers.
Berry Aviation have signed up for six of ENVISION’s modules, including Fleet Management, Base Maintenance, and Inventory Management, along with Rusada’s ENVISION Tasks and ENVISION Stock mobile applications.
The solution will be implemented by Rusada’s North American Client Services teams, with work on the project having already begun.
“Due to the growth we’ve experienced over recent years, we were looking for a solution that could better handle the operations and maintenance of a more diverse and larger fleet. ENVISION stood out for us because of its use of modern technologies, and its user-friendly interface. In particular, we were very impressed with its quick and easy forecasting of maintenance activities, as well as its ability to efficiently handle component MRO.
“Even in these early stages of the implementation process we are already beginning to see the benefits Rusada’s software will bring our business and our customers.”
Steve Jenkinson, Director Flight Dispatch Operations at Berry Aviation
Julian Stourton, CEO at Rusada said:
“The services that Berry Aviation provide are incredibly complex in nature, which in turn leads to a complex maintenance environment. Managing such a diverse fleet is tricky enough as it is, but if you don’t have an intelligent software solution to assist you, then the task becomes almost impossible.
“ENVISION has been tried and tested in complex operations around the world, so I am more than confident it can deliver the performance and oversight that Berry are seeking.”
About Rusada
Rusada is a leading provider of aviation software with over 35 years of experience in the industry. Its ENVISION software manages over 2,000 fixed and rotary wing aircraft for 150 operators, maintainers, and manufacturers in 45+ countries. With its headquarters in Switzerland and offices in the USA, UK, UAE, India, Singapore, and Australia, Rusada provides global support for a global industry.
Specialising in the management of airworthiness, maintenance, and flight operations, ENVISION is developed solely for aviation. Its modern, web-based platform features a suite of integrated modules, enhanced by a series of native mobile apps. ENVISION’s easy-to-use interface provides users with clear, actionable information, enabling processes to be carried out quickly and efficiently, and all without the need for paper or spreadsheets.
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Titan Helicopter Group Selects AD Software MRO / CAMO IT Solution
THG ranks as the number one large helicopter group in South Africa, with a diverse clientele including governments, parastatals, oil companies and relieve aid agencies. AD SOFTWARE IT solution supports maintenance and airworthiness via web-based access and mobile devices.
The Titan Helicopter Group of companies, consisting of various licensed operators, approved maintenance organisations and a technical training centre in South Africa, offers a diverse service to the Global Market through a culture of safety and excellence.
Following their decision to overhaul their legacy system THG led an exhaustive campaign to identify the best solution, testing different software in the process. AD SOFTWARE was able to comply with the ambitious time-frame defined by THG by sending a team of A/C data and CAMO experts on-site.
With 16 customers based in Africa and over 600 helicopters supported, AD SOFTWARE asserts its leading position on the market of MRO/CAMO software providers for rotary wing operators. The high ratio of revenues dedicated to R&D plus 20 years of expertise ensures AD SOFTWARE’s solutions are efficient and based on modern technologies.
Furthermore, AD SOFTWARE has teamed-up with several of its customers to build tailored solutions with the end-users and regulators in mind. The new modules have a fast time-to-market planning and are designed by aviation professionals. Thanks to these project-focused partnerships AD SOFTWARE is one of the only software providers in the aviation industry able to keep up with the permanent technological advancements.
Frederic Ulrich, CEO of ADS OFTWARE, commented: “We are extremely proud to work with THG. This is without a doubt one of the highlights of 2019 and a validation of our work methodology.”
About ADSoftware
AD SOFTWARE is a major supplier of CAMO/MRO software solutions for helicopter and fixed wing operators across the globe. In its 20 years of existence it has steadily increased its user base to over 65 airlines by providing a scalable and cost-efficient solution. AD SOFTWARE is used by OEMs and operators for fleet of 5 to 100 aircraft.
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